Libya: Woman struggles to tell foreign journalists of kidnapping, rape by Qaddafi militia

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Libya: Woman struggles to tell foreign journalists of kidnapping, rape by Qaddafi militia

“A Libyan woman burst into the hotel housing the foreign press in Tripoli Saturday morning and fought off security forces as she told journalists that she had been raped and beaten by members…

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/26/libya-woman-struggle.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag

Her name is Eman al-Obeidy. CNN’s Nic Robertson was present, and his tweeted account is screengrabbed here. “CNN camera was violently snatched, systematically smashed to pieces and video footage stolen,” he wrote. “Some journalists were beaten in blatant display of regime thuggery.”